Oct 5, 2025 | Climate Justice, Decolonization, Live Music, Music Industry, Social Justice, Sustainability
Nací en Bogotá a mediados de la década de 1970, en un país vibrante a punta de ritmos y contradicciones. Colombia, en las décadas de 1980 y 1990, era un lugar de creatividad deslumbrante ensombrecido por la violencia: una sociedad desgarrada por los carteles de la...
Oct 5, 2025 | Climate Justice, Decolonization, Live Music, Music Industry, Social Justice, Sustainability
I was born in Bogotá in the mid-1970s — into a country vibrating with rhythm and contradiction. Colombia in the 1980s and 90s was a place of dazzling creativity shadowed by violence: a society torn apart by drug cartels, paramilitaries, guerrillas, and corrupt...
Dec 17, 2020 | Climate Justice, Live Music, Music Industry, Sustainability
The debate about climate justice and equal opportunities does not stop at the music industry: The music industry, however, is very energy and resource intensive in all relevant areas. If we want to continue enjoying music as we do today, we need to make sustainable...
May 5, 2019 | Live Music, Music Industry, Sustainability
Interview published at Yamaha Inspided Raising Social Awareness of the Environment Through Music Events. Music producer and event organizer Mauricio Lizarazo Prada believes that all music events can and must be good for the environment. Back in his teens, Lizarazo...
Dec 17, 2007 | Live Music, Music Industry
The potential of brand marketing and strategic alliances with non-music industries lies in the fact that the music industry has been experiencing an ongoing phase of transition. This has at the end of the day caused album sales to exponentially turn down over...
Nov 11, 2006 | Decolonization, Live Music, Music Industry
American music exposes the country’s multi-ethnic population through a varied range of styles. Rock, country, R&B and blues, jazz, and hip-hop are among the country’s most internationally renowned genres. Since the beginning of the 20th century,...
